Two years in the making, Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of intelligence contracting was the hot story of the Monday news cycle. Journalists of all stripes took to Twitter to dole out praise for the story (and a few muted criticisms). Here's a sampling of what they had to say:
Just shook Dana
Priest's hand; she seems surprisingly unharried after two years of
solid reporting
marcambinder
marcambinder
The
briefing-overload described in the Priest/Arkin story reads like
something out of Borges.
Jack
Shafer
jackshafer
Top Secret's
great but couldn't you write same about health care--multiple offices,
gajillion employees, no coordination? Just saying.
Matthew
Cooper
mattizcoop
Always ironic to
me that the parts of the federal bureaucracy that most resemble
right-wing caricature are all nat'l security related.
Christopher
Hayes
chrislhayes
From a
commenter: result of the WP series will probably be more $ for Nat'l
Security State - after all, we need more analysts &
translators
Glenn
Greenwald
ggreenwald
Dana Priest
story will register in hearings, not on most-emailed list. (Which
doesn't help newspapers pay for investigations but whatevs!)
Alex
Pareene
pareene
Dana Priest continues to do the kind of reporting that 90% of "reporters" only think they do.
mattyglesias
mattyglesias
@emptywheel WaPo story is like a metaphor for intel problems. Basic info lost in 5000 words of overburden.
P2
flounder_AZ
those russian spies must have been REALLY bad at their job; according to @PostTSA, 854,000 americans have top secret security clearance.
avizenilman
avizenilman
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